As you’re well aware by now, it is not as hell out there. Unprecedented waves of heat bear down upon us, and that’s one of several reasons why you’d be better off inside, bingewatching to your heart’s content. Fortunately, Netflix has you covered. There aren’t returns from juggernauts this month like Stranger Things and The Umbrella Academy, but a long-awaited onscreen arrival for Neil Gaiman’s classic series is here to ominously step into those more mainstream shoes.
An exploration of a musical “clusterf**ck” and a sports documentary series will also fill your queues, along with returns from a Mindy Kaling-produced show and a spooky series based upon the works of Joe Hill. The library’s also overstuffing itself again with Spider-Man and Men In Black aplenty. There’s no way that you’ll be bored this month, not even for a moment.
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix in August.
The Sandman (Netflix series streaming 8/5)
Neil Gaiman’s seminal comic book series finally lands on the small screen (while the successful Audible epic keeps lugubriously pushing forth. The story picks up with Morpheus (the King of Dreams) angry as hell and for good reason. He takes vengeance against those who have imprisoned him, and he moves through space and time and dimension on a cosmic trip for the ages. In the end, the story weaves a miraculous tapestry of fiction and drama, infused with mythology for the ages.
Clusterf**k: Woodstock ’99 (Netflix documentary streaming 8/3)
Woodstock’s 1999 revival didn’t bring the peace and love of the 1969 original. Rather, it brought Trent Reznor raging onstage while the chaos continued to unfold for the entire festival. That’s nothing to do with NIN, but rather, the entirety of the production, which devolved into an extended weekend of mud and riots. This film digs into the “why” of it all, including interviews with staffers and planners. In the end, everything came down to pure greed and chaos, and it’s time to relive it all… from afar.
Untold: Volume 2 (Netflix series streaming 8/16)
The streaming service brings back this critically acclaimed docuseries with four new weekly epic stories. Expect to explore the expected (football and basketball) as well as the more offbeat (streetball) while the narrative takes you far beyond the media portrayal of each case. There’s grit and comedy and pathos and a “Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist,” which delivers one heck of a lesson about public relations, especially where it involves Hawaii native Manti Te’o, who deals with a great tragedy after entering college as a star player.
Never Have I Ever: Season 3 (Netflix series streaming 8/12)
Mindy Kaling’s brainchild (one of many, that is) returns for more coming-of-age shenanigans, and this season, Devi ends up achieving one of her goals (romance), but relationships end up being a lot more work than expected. And more drama, too.
Locke & Key: Season 3 (Netflix series streaming 8/10)
Joe Hill’s best-selling Locke and Key horror comic seemingly took forever to move out of adaptation limbo and into small-screen mode. This led to viewers enjoying the Locke children’s maneuvering against a spirit called Dodge when all the kids really want to do is feel comfy in their ancestral home. There are keys, yes, which are very attractive to the demonic foe in question, and this coming-of-age mystery’s still all about dealing with both love and loss, sometimes simultaneously. Also, it’s spooky.
Avail. TBA
Delhi Crime: Season 2
Partner Track
Avail. 8/1
Big Tree City
28 Days
8 Mile
Above the Rim
The Age of Adaline
Battle: Los Angeles
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Constantine
Dinner for Schmucks
Eyes Wide Shut
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Footloose (2011)
Hardcore Henry
Legends of the Fall
Love & Basketball
Made of Honor
Men in Black
Men in Black 3
Men in Black II
Miss Congeniality
Monster-in-Law
No Strings Attached
Pawn Stars: Season 13
Polly Pocket: Season 4: Part 2: Tiny Taste Adventure
She’s Funny That Way
Space Jam (1996)
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Top Gear: Season 29-30
The Town
Woman in Gold
Avail. 8/2
Ricardo Quevedo: Tomorrow Will Be Worse
Avail. 8/3
Buba
Clusterf**k: Woodstock ’99
Don’t Blame Karma!
Good Morning, Verônica: Season 2
Avail. 8/4
Lady Tamara
KAKEGURUI TWIN
Super Giant Robot Brothers
Wedding Season
Avail. 8/5
Carter
Darlings
The Informer
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
The Sandman
Skyfall
Avail. 8/6
Reclaim
Avail. 8/7
Riverdale: Season 6
Avail. 8/8
Code Name: Emperor
Team Zenko Go: Season 2
Avail. 8/9
I Just Killed My Dad
The Nice Guys
Avail. 8/10
Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist
Heartsong
Indian Matchmaking: Season 2
Instant Dream Home
Iron Chef Brazil
Locke & Key: Season 3
School Tales The Series
Avail. 8/11
Dope
DOTA: Dragon’s Blood: Book 3
Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story
Avail. 8/12
13: The Musical
A Model Family
Day Shift
Never Have I Ever: Season 3
Avail. 8/15
Ancient Aliens: Season 4
Deepa & Anoop
Learn to Swim
Avail. 8/16
Untold: Volume 2
UNTOLD: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist
Avail. 8/17
High Heat
Junior Baking Show: Season 6
Look Both Ways
Royalteen
Unsuspicious
Avail. 8/18
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Season 3
Inside the Mind of a Cat
Tekken: Bloodline
Avail. 8/19
The Cuphead Show!: Part 2
Echoes
The Girl in the Mirror (Alma)
Glow Up: Season 4
Kleo
The Next 365 Days
Avail. 8/20
Fullmetal Alchemist The Revenge of Scar
Avail. 8/21
A Cowgirl’s Song
Avail. 8/23
Chad and JT Go Deep
Untold: The Rise and Fall of AND1
Avail. 8/24
Lost Ollie
Mo
Queer Eye: Brazil
Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee
Selling The OC
Under Fire
Watch Out, We’re Mad
Avail. 8/25
Angry Birds: Summer Madness: Season 3
History 101: Season 2
Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure
That’s Amor
Avail. 8/26
Disobedience
Drive Hard: The Maloof Way
Loving Adults
Ludik
Me Time
Seoul Vibe
Avail. 8/29
Under Her Control
Mighty Express: Season 7
Avail. 8/30
I AM A KILLER: Season 3
Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul
Avail. 8/31
Club América vs Club América
Family Secrets
I Came By
Leaving 8/4
They’ve Gotta Have Us: Season 1
Leaving 8/5
Screwball
Leaving 8/7
We Summon the Darkness
Leaving 8/9
Demonic
The Saint
Leaving 8/10
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Leaving 8/15
Endless Love
Selfless
Leaving 8/20
The Conjuring
Leaving 8/23
Young & Hungry: Seasons 1-5
Leaving 8/24
The November Man
Wheel of Fortune: Season 35-37
Leaving 8/25
Taxi Driver
The Visit
Leaving 8/27
Wind River
Leaving 8/30
In the Line of Fire
Leaving 8/31
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
Agatha Christie’s Crooked House
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Cliffhanger
The Dark Knight Rises
The Departed
GoodFellas
Grown Ups
Halloween
Just Like Heaven
Kung Fu Panda 2
Major Dad: Seasons 1-4
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible II
Premonition
Public Enemies
Rise of the Guardians
Soul Surfer
Starship Troopers
Titanic
We Are Marshall
Wyatt Earp
